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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5823 comp.sys.intel:9023 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.intel Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Question: First Co to use Intel 386; What is COW? Message-ID: <hastyCEpD6I.KHv@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <299tfjINNl0o@ANGOLA.AI.CS.YALE.EDU> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 22:30:18 GMT Lines: 28 In article <299tfjINNl0o@ANGOLA.AI.CS.YALE.EDU> krikis-martinch@cs.yale.edu (Ma'rtin's' Krik'is) writes: >Hi! > >A friend of mine was interested in the following: > >Which company was the first to use the Intel 386 processor in its >computers? Was it IBM, Intel, Compaq, Sony or DELL? Anybody knows >a good way to find this out? > >What does an abbreviation (not an animal) COW stand for? Must be >something computer related... Perhaps Copy On Write, terminology used to describe the behavior of shared memory when a process attempts to write into the page, the kernel creates a new page and copies the old contents into the new page;thus new processes which may access the original shared memory page will not shared the new information written into the page. Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming